In Re the Will of McDonald

This is an issue of devisavit vel non.

A paper writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Ella McDonald, deceased, was admitted to probate in common form in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court of Chowan County, and a caveat thereto was subsequently filed by W. M. Walters, on behalf of himself and other heirs at law of the decedent, wherein it is alleged that said paper writing is not the will of Ella McDonald “for the reason that the same is not in the handwriting of the said Ella McDonald; nor was it signed by ber nor by any person in ber presence and by ber direction;…